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Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...adult bear's re-warming energy cost is 105 greater than that of a mouse and the energy required for re-warming is equivalent to the energy needed to remain euthermic for nearly 3 days (compared to 3 hours in the mouse). The importance of size is balanced by the importance of the habitat, and by the ability of animals to evolve their thermoregulatory strategy to match...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...De Stefano 1998). Chen and DeStefano first indicated the excellent safety record of MMR in hundreds of millions of people worldwide over three decades. They questioned whether the newly identified syndrome of autistic enterocolitis could be considered clinically distinctive: ‘no clear case-definition was presented, a necessary requirement of a true new clinical syndrome...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...de Chardin who took a more spiritual approach. I have already claimed both a systemic and a systematic approach can be encompassed within a systems approach, by an aware practitioner. Please bear in mind here that I am saying these are choices to be made; I am not commenting on the appropriateness, quality or efficacy of the options nor am I saying they are exclusive...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...adult might have: take a holiday abroad next year buy a flat within ten years help the homeless get married in three years’ time have a comfortable retirement. These goals relate to different time periods. In financial terms, ‘short term’ is normally taken to be under five years, ‘medium term’ is around five to ten years, and ‘long term’ is normally more...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...de-narrativise the picture, extending the youth away from himself, connecting him, as the other fanlike structures do, to a realm of being he can't contain, where there are no borders or figures, no beginning or end. This, then, is the youth's secret, one not of interiority but rather of infinite extensibility, a secret of unrepresented and unrepresentable, ontological...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith
Education & Development

Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith

...Adult helpers in my school” gan Emily (6 oed) Er mwyn deall rôl cynorthwywyr addysgu yn well, mae'n ddefnyddiol ystyried sut mae cynorthwywyr yn fwy cyffredinol yn cefnogi gwahanol fathau o weithwyr proffesiynol. Fel cynorthwywyr addysgu mewn ysgolion, mae rolau tebyg i'w gweld mewn meysydd gwaith eraill hefyd. Er enghraifft, yn y gwasanaeth iechyd, mae nyrsys yn cael...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...adult learning experiences. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Dewey, J. (1933) How we think. Buffalo NY: Prometheus Books. Flores, M. and Day, C. (2006) ‘Contexts which shape and reshape new teachers’ identities: a multi-perspective study’, Teaching and Teacher Education, 22, pp. 219–232. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/ j.tate.2005.09.002 (Accessed: 20 May...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...de Chernatony et al., 2011). In this Reebok® advertisement the brand becomes the stage for social interaction. With a common interest in fitness, people get together and create a sports community that allows them to integrate in this social setting. If you are reading this course as an ebook, you can access this video here: Reebok CrossFit: The Community Stop and reflect...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs